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Overview

  • 62 references 51 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Japanese, Spanish; learning English
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Tour Guide. Bartender .Traveler
  • Tourism
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Look where we live.
Know peoples,places ,cultures...
and Live .

ABOUT ME

Now I living in Ishigaki Island, Japan.

Living as a tour guide and photographer .

I start traveling in April 2013.

Mostly walking with my skateboard and a sleeping bag , hitchhiking and couchsurfing.

I like to
Take pictures ( Nikon D5300 & Nikol coolpix)
Hang out with animals ,
Good coffees and bar hopping,
dance ,skateboard,snowboard , scuba diving , hiking , camping , etc.......

PHILOSOPHY

Don't look back & Don't look the future.

The color and the sky are not different,
The color and the sky are the same.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meeting peoples during my trip .

Showing travelers where I live.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

2013
April.
Surf / Awaji,Japan Sally
Surf / Ooita,Japan Ran
May.
Surf / Gifu Yukiko family
Lunch / Gifu,Japan Seika
Dinner/ Nagano,Japan
Surf / Tokyo,Japan Megumi
June.
Surf / Yamagata,Japan Mari family
July.
Surf / Seattle WA
Surf / Seattle WA Nicole
Hang out/ Seattle WA
Sep.
Surf / Denali AK Lindsay
Ride Share /Fairbanks AK
Surf / Portland OR Leah
Beer / Portland OR Mike
Oct.
Surf / Portland OR Jesse
Surf / Spokane WA
Surf / TwinFalls ID
Surf / Amarillo TX
Nov.
Surf / St.Louis MO Patch
Surf /Columbus OH Jenny
Ride share /DC
Dec
Surf/ PuertoRico Omar
hang out/ Puerto Rico Joshua
Surf/Vieques Brittany family

2014
Jan
Surf/Rep.Dominican✖️2 Luis, Altagracia
hang out/Rep.Dominican Dhariana
Surf/Jamaica✖️4 Elizabeth,Eduardo,Jacob
Feb
hang out/Cuba David
Mar
4 month Road trip/New Orleans to Miami to Maine to California Claire
April
Surf / Florida. David
Surf/ Florida. Williams
Surf/Florida. Vita
June
Hang out/ DC. Yue
July
Surf/NewYork Gillermo
Surf/Denver Kenji
August
Surf/Las Vegas Mattew
Surf/Tijuana Méx. Radim
September
Surf/Guadalajara Méx. ✖︎3 Gabriel,Juan,Eferh
Surf/Guanajuato Méx. Adrián
Surf/Querétaro Méx. Alex & Areli
Surf/DF Méx. Lucio,Vitamina
Surf / Cholula Méx.Julius
Surf/ San Cristobal Mex.
Hang out/ San Cristobal Mex. Ana
September
Surf/ Santa Cruz , Guatemala. Yoko & Michi
October
Surf/ Tegucigalpa,Honduras David
Hang out/ Tegucigalpa, Honduras Biron
November
Surf/ Cartagena Colombia
Surf/Bogota, Colombia✖︎2
Summer , Anny
Surf/Cali,Colombia.✖︎2
Katherine , Maria
Surf/Popayan ,Colombia. Jhoan
Hang out/ Popayan, Colombia. Ana
Surf/Pasto, Colombia . David
Surf/Quito , Ecuador . Francisco
Surf/Ambato, Ecuador . Tatiana
Surf/Loja, Ecuador. Belen
December
Surf/ Chiclayo,Peru . Brian
Surf/Huaraz,Peru .Florent
2015
January
Surf/Arequipa, Peru.Pedro
February
Travel/1 month from Chalten to Buenos Aires with Risa
Surf/Ushuaia, Argentina. Sandra
Surf/Rawson, Argentina.Pedro
Surf/Puerto Madryn, Argentina.Paula
Surf/Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mario

2018 and I still on my trip
Too many to write here:)

Interests

Too many to write.
In a word 「know 」

  • animals
  • dancing
  • beer
  • coffee
  • meditation
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • snowboarding
  • skateboarding
  • carpooling
  • naturism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
mellow hiphop ,reggae ,house,country

Movies
Non fiction.
Into the wild, The city of god ,Lost in the antartic etc....

Books
Sawaki Koutarou.
Robert Harris.
Paulo Coelho,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Two times of 10days of Vipassana Meditation in Japan.

Hike alone to the back country of Denali Park,Alaska. and camp in the top of one mountain with the view of thousands of stars, the sunrise of Mt.McKenley and beautiful Dolls sheep around the tent .

See the Northen Lights from the sky from Anchorage,Alaska

Meet a few tribes of Ethiopia and see the most active volcano after 3 days traveling in a dessert.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Time, stories , drinks , music etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, Peru

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